October City Chick challenge

The Scrappin' in the City design team challenge for October is to use a stencil.  After knowing about this challenge all month, I finally pull something together at the last minute-- October is almost over! 

 

I adore the stencil I chose, it's the mini Chunky Chevron stencil from Balzar Designs (The Crafter's Workshop). I inked, airbrushed and sprayed many, many times before finally ending up with this design--I would photograph the reject pile but it's too embarrassing. 

 

After misting the stencil with Mister Huey's color mists, I decided to flip the stencil over and rub the wet ink that was left on top of the stencil onto a sheet of pattern paper and liked the subtle distressed look I ended up with.

 

If you are a local or will be traveling near the Knoxville area, stop in at Scrappin' in the City and check out all the goodies!

 

Limited Supply List:

 

Pattern Paper:  DIY Shop (Crate Paper),  Amy Tangerine: Ready, Set, Go ( American Crafts), Adrienne Looman: Family Traditions (Webster's Pages)

 

Ink:  Mister Huey's Color Mists (Studio Calico), Dark Chocolate dye ink (Papertrey Ink)

 

Dies:  Puffy Star Dies (Lawn Fawn)

 

 

Challenge card

I dislike posting multiple times in one day, but I need to get this card entered in a challenge that closes this evening.  I normally don't do too many challenges let alone combine a few, but I am entering this card in the following 3 challenges:

Lawnscaping: Polka Dots

CAS-ual Friday # 3: Bring the Bling

Papercrafts Color Inspiration #5 (orange, pink, white, black)

Stamps used:  PTI's Polka Dot basics, Lawn Fawn's Just my Type

Keep Cool & Konnichiwa

Click here to see my Paper Smooches post

I saw an idea like this on a decorating blog and decided it would be a fantastic summer gift. I made this project for a friend of my daughter's who spends all summer in another state with her Dad and doesn't get to hang with her school chums.  She's a sweet kid and is very much missed during the summer. 

I used Lawn Fawn's Swimsuit Season that Julie sent me for Christmas last year. Isn't she so stinkin' sweet!?  Pattern paper is Echo Park.  I must tell you that it was hard to tie this tag on this big ol' heavy bag of popsicles. I had to tie the ribbon under the plastic tag that came on the popsicle bag because the tag wanted to slide off when I tied it above the plastic tag.

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My next card uses the adorable Konnichiwa stamp set from My Cute Stamps and some Basic Grey Kioshi paper. I blogged about this card here if you want more details.

Gray is the new Black challenge #2

This my second entry for the Moxie Fab Gray is the new black challenge.  Today is the last day to enter, so I thought I'd get this one in before it's too late. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamp set used is Just My Type from Lawn Fawn, A Little Argyle stamp set from PTI,  SU's Basic Gray cardstock and ink, Pewter ribbon by Offray, Pattern paper by ?? (I can't recall!), circle nestabilities, gray thread used for stitching around circle.

Lawnscaping Challenge 2

The second Lawnscaping challenge went up today and the challenge is to case a card by Kelly Marie Alvarez.  I chose this card  of Kelly's to case. 

Thanks for stopping by!

                                                                 

Supplies:  White cardstock (Mohawk, Pink cardstock (SU!), Pattern paper from Fly a Kite by October Afternoon, Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Copic markers, PTI vintage cream ink, Versamagic ink in Wheat.

Lawnscaping Challenge, a day late.

I made this for the first Lawnscaping Challenge-All about Snow-- and of course, I'm a day late. *sigh*  I thought the deadline was Jan 14th for some reason.  Wishful thinking, I suppose. LOL

Oh well, at least I actually made a card and got to use the awesome Winter Bunny stamp I won from Michelle's blog.   The card base looks a bit bowed in the picture, it's not in real life. 

Be back tomorrow with a Perfect Presentation group post!

Birthday cards

I've never loved purple but I'm really drawn to it these days.  Especially this delicious lavender moon ribbon from Papertrey Ink.  This card is so much prettier in person--my camera isn't working properly so I'm using my 9yo daughter's camera and it does ok, but not as well as my camera.  

I wanted to do one of those cool frames with a black pen and ruler but I can't pull that look off, my hands aren't steady enough, so I made a frame out of cardstock using my square nestabilities.

Lawn Fawn is having a little contest and I thought I'd attempt to get my mojo back by entering a card or two.  I plan to make more with this set to enter.  Check out the details here as they only want certain stamp sets used and the hard part is NO pattern paper.  Yikes.

Have a wonderful day!

Annie

Supplies:  Stamp set is Bake me a Cake from Lawn Fawn, cardstock is from Papertrey Ink and SU, Copic markers, Twine from The Twinery.